Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style?

ISBN
9780415234870

Edition
3 Rev ed

Publication Date
1 Jan 2000

Publisher
Routledge

Author(s)
Nils Christie

Overview

This classic text argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Since the second edition was published in 1994, prison populations , especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate. This third edition is published to take account of these changes and draw attention to the scale of an escalating problem. It contains completely new chapters - one on 'penal geography', the other on 'the Russian case' - and has been extensively revised.